Track 9

Unit 5b.

Economics.

Microcredit: changing lives.

Page 85.

Try it out.

Every year more and more people don’t make enough money to feed their families. From 1983 to 1993, about 1.1 billion people became poor. Today 2.9 billion people live on less than two dollars a day, and did you know that 70% of those people are women? If we do not make some changes by 2030, we will have 4.9 billion or more people living on only two dollars per day.